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The Informers (2008)
Genre.: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars.: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke
Video.: 720×304 | 23.976 fps | 1 673 Kbps
Audio.:  AC-3 | 448 Kbps
Release Date: 12.08.2009
User Rating: 7,5/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton , Kim Basinger , Mickey Rourke , Winona Ryder 

The Informers is about a bunch of rich, spoiled, disaffected, hedonistic, obnoxious, ungrateful and gorgeous young people who simply do whatever they want and abuse / dismiss / mock anyone who gives them a second glance. Why anyone would want to spend 94 minutes with a crew this venal and hateful is anyone’s guess, but combine their collective unpleasantness with a screenplay that "adapts" little and goes nowhere fast, and you’re looking at a movie that’s an absolute chore to sit through.

We open with the inconsequential demise of one young idiot, which gives us an entry to the rest of the gang: One guy has a mega-~censored~ girlfriend, but he doesn’t really care about her carnal activities. Another is a hip video director who’s sleeping with the other guy’s mom … and the ~censored~ girlfriend. Another uninteresting tool spends the whole flick whining away during a trip to Hawaii with his dad … and then there’s the drug-addicted rock star who wobbles around and drinks a whole lot.

One can only assume that Ellis’ goal with this collection of noxious tales was that he wanted to give each thread precisely two acts and nothing more. I say this because, while I have no problem watching beautiful people doing vapid things, I do have a problem with a bunch of mini-stories that offer zero in the resolution department. As each of the five or six subplots lurch to a close, one is left thinking "Dear lord, is that it??"